employee so requests. Any resolution of the grievance shall not be inconsistent with the terms of
this agreement. The Union shall be notified of the resolution of the grievance.
Without intending to expand the definition of a grievance beyond violations of this
agreement, all written grievances will be submitted on an AFSCME Council 93 Official
Grievance Form, which is appended hereto as Appendix C.
will be transacted on City time, except as specified in Article 14. The Union recognizes that the
efficient delivery of services is a primary objective of the parties under this contract.
E. It is agreed that any employee leaving his work without authorization of his/her
foreman will forfeit the pay for the time while absent from his/her assigned job for the first such
absence, and will be subject to disciplinary procedures, authorized under paragraph B above for
each subsequent absence.
f. Any employee who is awarded a transfer shall be allowed to transfer back to his/her
former position within their probationary period. In addition, any employee may transfer
back to his/her former position or to another position, if the other position has a higher
pay rate, for a period of one year after the award is made, and only if a vacancy exists.
B. TEMPORARY JOB ASSIGNMENTS
ARTICLE 11 - VACANCIES, PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS
A. Within ninety (90) days of the occurrence of a permanent opening in a
department, the City shall either abolish the job or post it and fill it in accordance with the
provisions below:
off with or without cause, and such discharge or layoff shall not be subject to the grievance
procedure.
WASTEWATER
___1. Solid Waste Dept.
2. Street Dept.
3. Parks Dept.
ARTICLE 10 - SENIORITY
A. There shall be three types of seniority:
(a) Division Seniority
{b) Department Seniority
(c) Classification Seniority
Notwithstanding the above, if an unforeseen and unanticipated situation occurs during the
course of a workday that requires work beyond the usual workday hours, the employees
currently working on such assignment may be assigned no more than one additional hours to
continue work on the_project. The parties agree that this section is not intended to usurp the
overtime list. Instead, it is intended to be used to address unforeseen and unanticipated situations
that occur on a given work day at a given work site.
P. Master Overtime List
1.
F. The workday or the workweek will not be interrupted to avoid the payment of
overtime.
G, For the purpose of distribution of overtime on a rotating basis as discussed in
paragraphs H through K below, all classifications and work locations which have overtime as
part of the regular schedule shall not have such overtime considered as overtime opportunities.
E. Any change in the regular work schedule hours shall be the subject of discussions
between the Union and the City before being implemented.
F, Employees shall be allowed a fifteen (15) minute wash-up period prior to the end
of the work shift.
G. Assignments as collection equipment operators/rubbish collectors will first be
made from those who desire the position.
C. During a period during the winter months, certain Park Department ermployees
will normally be scheduled to work a shift starting at 10:45 p.m. and will work eight (8)
consecutive hours until 6:45 am. Shift differential pay of forty (40) cents per hour will be paid
for time worked on this shift. The shift will be staffed, first, by employees desiring this shift; if
the staffing is not adequate, this shift will be filled by employees in order of reverse seniority
